True Crime (1999)

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Love the Hard Way

Film.com's FREE movie of the week is "Love the Hard Way." Oscar-winner Adrien Brody and Charlotte Ayanna star in this drama about a thief who falls for a curious, beautiful young woman. As their intimacy grows, a slick cop (Pam Greer) is closing in.

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Rating: R

Release Date: Mar 19, 1999

Running Time: 127 mins. (V)

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Clint Eastwood, Isaiah Washington, Denis Leary, Lisa Gay Hamilton, James Woods, Bernard Hill, Michael Jeter, Diane Venora, Michael McKean, Sydney Tamiia Poitier

director: Clint Eastwood

A down and out journalist finds his chance to turn his life around when he successfully manages to have a murder case reopened, just as the man convicted for the crime awaits execution on death row. The journalist fights against time to prove the man's innocence and save his life.

December 8, 2000

At first it's a kick to watch Clint Eastwood play Steve Everett, a horn-dog newsman who doesn't let a wife (Diane Venora) and child (Francesca Eastwood, his real-life daughter) interrupt his babe chasing. Is Clint being Clinton-esque? Even if he's not, these scenes are the liveliest part of this dog-tired movie.

The old man -- fired from the New York Times, Steve has moved to California to work for the Oakland Tribune -- is bedding the wife of the paper's city editor (a snarling Denis Leary).…